Top: Material Girl, Macy's
Skirt (a dress!): Macy's
Boots: Union Bay, Kohl's
Bag: Worthington, JCPenney
When you're feeling less than thrilled with life, read a romance novel. Fun and frothy, they are the reading woman's rom coms, complete with meet-cutes, beautiful people, and predictably happy endings. On the flip side, if you're on top of the world, then these confections can seem kind of hollow. But they've got me through a hard time or two, and sometimes I even learn something.
Case in point, last winter I was putting away a pair of UNIONBAY boots I'd scored for 70% off at the after Christmas sale at Kohl's and noticed that the box had the Seattle skyline on it in the lower left-hand corner. (I could tell because of the Space Needle.)
And I thought, huh, I guess Union Bay is a real place, and that it's in Seattle. Then I remembered that the romance author I'd been reading sets a lot of her books in Seattle, and that she references Union Bay. And I was like, mind blown.
Who says you can't add a wrinkle to the old brain from hanging with happily ever after? And also, from bargain basement shoe shopping?
In keeping with the, ahem, heart of the matter, I unearthed this bubble pendant that I embellished last Valentine's Day.
Unlike the other pendants that came in the Target Dollar Spot four-pack, it was gray to their more traditionally cheerful reds and pinks. But to me, that made it even more appealing, the perfect canvas for a neon rainbowed, 1980s-inspired design. Still, it was kind of subtle all on its own (and you know I don't do subtle), so I paired it with my oldy but goody Rubik's Cube-esque squares-within-a-square pendant for the purposes of this post.
That said, sometimes sunshine is only a creative project or department store or book store (or, yes, Amazon.com) away.
Lovers' tales and footwear sales: kind of brings a whole new meaning to kinky boots.